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Kever Clark
awesome opportunity serving with so many different personalities. This was such a harmonious
enneth L. Davis
dred years after the racial violence and coup of 1898 some people still promote yesterday's
the
This report accurately records facts that many, over the years, were eager to obscure. The 1890’ s were a
me wh
ed the
Documenting the events of 1898 have been contentious and emotional but we had a moral obligation to
orrect a
iel
ut
The injustices of 1898 were more that an attack on unarmed Negroes, the silencing of the Black press and
e remo
l
he
“ This has been an
group. Looking for the truth in all the right places gave the instant feeling that we were doing what was right and
just. Thank all of you for serving so well.”
K
“ Over one hun
deceptions as today and tomorrow's history. The future they want most to control is the continued distortion of
African American contributions to Wilmington and the nation. They want to continue the myth that the cause of
racial violence that took place in Wilmington on Thursday, November 10, 1898, was caused by a corrupt
government made of in large part by Negroes.
ti en the Democratic Party, primarily made up of former confederates, were bitter because they had lost the
Civil War and had been subjected to harsh occupation by Union forces during Reconstruction. They wanted to
return to the master slave relationship and invoke the failed doctrine of white supremacy. What happened in
November of 1898 was a breakdown in the rule of law. Alfred Moore Waddell and the leaders that orchestrat
violence should be recorded in history for what they really were, felons! The wanton destruction of property and the
indiscriminant murder of innocent people cannot be justified even in the historical context of 1898.
c n egregious wrong that has gone on too long without being remedied. The names of Thomas C. Miller,
Alexander Manly, Arie Bryant, Robert B. Pickens, Salem J. Bell, Carter Peamon and others banished from
Wilmington including those Negroes killed or wounded John Townsend, Charles Lindsey, Josh Halsey, Dan
Wright, John R. Davis, Samuel McFarland, William Lindsey, Alfred White, George Davis, George Henry Davis,
George Miller, John Dow and according to the November 12, 1898 edition of The Evening Dispatch “ a number
killed not accounted for and who will never be accounted for.” should be recognized not as rioters or criminals b
as victims of an illegal racist regime.
th val of an allegedly corrupt city government; it was an attack on the constitution, the fabric the binds this
nation together. We must remove the diabolical stain of racism from the fabric of freedom and democracy that stil
exist in Wilmington today. It exists in the gentrification of black communities, it exists in the attempt to re-segregate
schools, it exists in hiring and promotions practices in the public and private sector and it exists in t
distorted historical facts of the events of 1898.”

Kever Clark
awesome opportunity serving with so many different personalities. This was such a harmonious
enneth L. Davis
dred years after the racial violence and coup of 1898 some people still promote yesterday's
the
This report accurately records facts that many, over the years, were eager to obscure. The 1890’ s were a
me wh
ed the
Documenting the events of 1898 have been contentious and emotional but we had a moral obligation to
orrect a
iel
ut
The injustices of 1898 were more that an attack on unarmed Negroes, the silencing of the Black press and
e remo
l
he
“ This has been an
group. Looking for the truth in all the right places gave the instant feeling that we were doing what was right and
just. Thank all of you for serving so well.”
K
“ Over one hun
deceptions as today and tomorrow's history. The future they want most to control is the continued distortion of
African American contributions to Wilmington and the nation. They want to continue the myth that the cause of
racial violence that took place in Wilmington on Thursday, November 10, 1898, was caused by a corrupt
government made of in large part by Negroes.
ti en the Democratic Party, primarily made up of former confederates, were bitter because they had lost the
Civil War and had been subjected to harsh occupation by Union forces during Reconstruction. They wanted to
return to the master slave relationship and invoke the failed doctrine of white supremacy. What happened in
November of 1898 was a breakdown in the rule of law. Alfred Moore Waddell and the leaders that orchestrat
violence should be recorded in history for what they really were, felons! The wanton destruction of property and the
indiscriminant murder of innocent people cannot be justified even in the historical context of 1898.
c n egregious wrong that has gone on too long without being remedied. The names of Thomas C. Miller,
Alexander Manly, Arie Bryant, Robert B. Pickens, Salem J. Bell, Carter Peamon and others banished from
Wilmington including those Negroes killed or wounded John Townsend, Charles Lindsey, Josh Halsey, Dan
Wright, John R. Davis, Samuel McFarland, William Lindsey, Alfred White, George Davis, George Henry Davis,
George Miller, John Dow and according to the November 12, 1898 edition of The Evening Dispatch “ a number
killed not accounted for and who will never be accounted for.” should be recognized not as rioters or criminals b
as victims of an illegal racist regime.
th val of an allegedly corrupt city government; it was an attack on the constitution, the fabric the binds this
nation together. We must remove the diabolical stain of racism from the fabric of freedom and democracy that stil
exist in Wilmington today. It exists in the gentrification of black communities, it exists in the attempt to re-segregate
schools, it exists in hiring and promotions practices in the public and private sector and it exists in t
distorted historical facts of the events of 1898.”